Flo Rida's "Low" is beginning its eighth week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, a sure sign the world is coming to an end.

I won't lie. If I have too many soda pops, I enjoy watching hip-hop videos because they are almost all variations of the same theme. Mug and pose. Raise your hands in the air. Show off your gold teeth, tats and bling.

However, the music is atrocious. Seriously, we are devolving as a species.

Overall, there isn't much change in the Top 10. Yael Naim moved up a couple spots with that Mac song I told you about earlier this week. On the other hand Buckcherry cracks the Top 10 with another song I deplore, called "Sorry."

But I don't hate the band. Nope, I really dug this tune from a couple years back called "Crazy Bitch," and it's probably not safe to blast at work unless you work in a strip club, brothel or some location where so-called respectable folk might hang.

Seriously though. This takes me back to my hair-band days. Love it.

One of the biggest movers of the week -- from No. 42 to 32 -- is Jordin Sparks' duet with Chris Brown called "No Air." This was a smart move by her label to release this, as I noted in a blog post months ago. First, he's a star, and he's credible in pop circles. Second, this is a very well done pop song musically. I can't speak to the words because I can't understand a danged word they're singing, and I am certain enough that this isn't Pulitzer material that I ain't gonna look 'em up.

However, the production, the arrangement, the vibe: This is going to be a big, big hit. We'll see, but given the general good performance of her first single, I'm starting to think everybody has been wrong about Jordin Sparks.

However, the award for my favorite song on the charts this week goes to a band that I hated just five years ago. They've grown on me, and I think they're maturing in much the same way that Green Day has over the past decade.

Or perhaps they've just grown on me.

It's Linkin Park, and I think they're song "Shadow of the Day" is tremendously well-written, well-produced and performed. It strongly reminds me of Joshua Tree-era U2. I think this is an early contender for Record of the Year honors in 2009.

Like everything else nowadays, that this song is No. 19 and struggling to get to the Top 10 while Flo Rida has been No. 1 for eight weeks says everything about our collective taste at this juncture. But I'll leave things on an up note and show LP's video for "Shadow of the Day."